{"id":170352,"date":"2023-08-24T01:32:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/how-space-debris-could-derail-esas-clearspace-1-mission"},"modified":"2023-08-24T01:32:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:32:42","slug":"how-space-debris-could-derail-esas-clearspace-1-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/how-space-debris-could-derail-esas-clearspace-1-mission","title":{"rendered":"How space debris could derail ESA\u2019s ClearSpace-1 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-space-debris-could-derail-esas-clearspace-1-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Clearspace-1 mission is due to launch in 2026, but its target may have smashed into more space debris flying around Earth.<\/p>\n<p>A European space debris cleanup mission run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Swiss startup ClearSpace has been adversely affected by space debris.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, called ClearSpace-1, is aiming to collect a Vespa payload adapter left in low Earth orbit by a Vega rocket over a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clearspace-1 mission is due to launch in 2026, but its target may have smashed into more space debris flying around Earth. A European space debris cleanup mission run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Swiss startup ClearSpace has been adversely affected by space debris. The mission, called ClearSpace-1, is aiming to collect a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}